Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Get 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
2. Prepare 50 g minced beef
3. Take 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
4. Take 3 sliced ginger
5. Make ready some scallions
6. Make ready 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
7. Get 1 chopped dried chili
8. Take 1 spoon chili sauce
9. Make ready 2 spoons starch
10. Prepare some black pepper
11. Take salt
12. Take 1 spoon light soy sauce
13. Get 1 spoon sesame oil

Steps to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Cut tofu into around 1 cm³ cube, pour them into boiled water, add 1 spoon salt, cook for 3min in order to remove the beany flavor, then set aside
2. Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts
3. Add the minced beef, 1 part of peppercorn, dried chilies, chili sauce, scallions, and bean paste soy sauce into the wok and stir fry until the chili juice come out, then add water, and when the water boils, add tofu to stew, the water can not over the tofu, stew for 5-8min, don't stir too much, otherwise, tofu will collapse
4. Before finsih, add starch (mix with water) for thickening, cook for 3min. add another part of peppercorn and scallion, finally pour some heated seasame oil on the top of tofu

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